POET, HERO, VILLAIN: The Complicated Life and Philosophy of PABLO NERUDA

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[@Literal_killjoy]

As a chilean and aspiring poet, I have mixed feelings regarding Neruda. Is nice to see people analysing him as a real person, who is accountable of his defects. In our school system, neruda is usually taught just as a poet and winner of a nobel prize. I really love your content. Saludos fraternos desde Santiago.

[@DarkAngelEU]

They do this in schools all around the world. I remember learning about the surrealists, who they really were, and being rather dissatisfied. In the end, their work overcomes the individual. That's why it's art.

[@letsreadtextbook1687]

Man... another humanist who was really passionate about helping collective but was very irresponsible to their own family

[@woecel]

I’ve always found it really interesting how nearly all great thinkers and writers tend to have rocky (if not destructive) personal lives while pushing the boundaries of humanist ideals. Maybe it’s a coping mechanism, or maybe it just comes down to the fact that no one is perfect.

[@MacSmithVideo]

Many such cases!

[@TheGiggadude]

I'm under the assumption from experience, that this is done to both cope with and distance themselves from their actions, the target of change and review then doesn't have to be placed on them. Instead they attempt to better themselves by trying to better what's around them, be that their environment or other people's lives.

[@sagu1lar]

The reason for this behavior is trauma. A crucial human need, often neglected, is affection. When we are in our developing years (aka childhood), the need to feel affection from our peers, and especially from our parents, is vital for our health and survival. This means that the lack of affection from our parents at an early age, is actually, a traumatic experience. Thus, we develop coping mechanisms. (Neruda lost his mother and had a neglectful father, so his childhood was obviously traumatic) And so, when faced with absolute neglect in childhood, we have two options: Either we let ourselves wither in sadness; or we take action upon the world, in such magnitude, that we can no longer be ignored. And thus, finally be loved. This is why many over achievers usually have sad childhoods. We are all looking for human connection. The thing is, that when people with these experiences have families, they quickly realize they know little to nothing on how to be loving people themselves. That is, because no one really taught them how to be one. And so the traumatic experience begins anew. This is no coincidence. Usually the people filled with much bright light, have gone through what seemed endless darkness.

[@Thanatology138]

Communal narcissism.

[@Alba-ze5jn]

Nice to see that you are also doing analysis about poets. I would love to see more of these! As a native spanish speaker, i have strong mixed feelings abour Neruda. The 20 love poems are almost a pop culture phenomenon. My mother read them to me, we read them over and over in highschool, they are in movies, in songs... Yet it makes me somehow sick to think that the same man who wrote some of the sweetest love poems also didn't hesitate to abandon his wife and his disabled child. I haven't read anything of them in years, but maybe i give him a shot again. I actually always wanted to read the Canto general. Thanks for the video!

[@DarkAngelEU]

Who says he didn't hesitate to leave them? Were you there? Do you know Neruda's thoughts as to why he abandoned them? Why are you so quick to judge a process that might have taken months or years to come to its conclusion? Maybe he found himself terribly incapable of intimacy and acted in a way that he thought was best for everyone involved? Did you ever think of that? People are always so eager to be negative. Try some compassion next time, my friend.

[@k3iler05]

I was going to read him, but after finding out he was a c0mun1st I will not be reading it.

[@chikeh1]

"Love is so short, Forgetting is so long"

[@Gar96229]

“If nothing can save us from death, then maybe love can save us from life” This is the quote that made me interested in Neruda

[@emilianoreynoso8688]

Can you do one about Jorge Luis Borges? he is definitely one of the best poet/writers of all time. and his work is of strong philosophical subtense

[@yeezydeezy7867]

You mentioned how 20 poems is the best selling book in Spanish language but you forgot to mention that he wrote it when he was 19. I mean I’m 19 and I haven’t written any most popular Spanish book of all time.

[@seansmith3058]

That's why you need Babbel!

[@togeproductions6013]

Here in Mexico we highly praise Neruda for his literary work but are rarely taught about his life as interesting as it was. Love your style so it was very refreshing to learn about a poet I love. My favorite quote from him: “tan cerca que tu mano sobre mi pecho es mía, tan cerca que se cierran tus ojos con mi sueño.” Translate to “so close that your hand your on my chest is mine, so close that your eyes close with my sleepiness.” I’ve always felt like his poems (I’m read a lot of his work but not enough to propose a confident opinion) talk about loving or feeling so much about someone that you become one with that person, so seeing you say that most of his work is about loneliness has motivated me to rediscover his work through new lenses

[@togeproductions6013]

If you’d like to continue learning spanish, I’d recommend taking a lot of input, I learnt english and french this way, but it’s hard finding decent entertainment in spanish sometimes but I recommend watching the “A fondo” interviews, they are old but usually have very interesting guests such as Carlos Fuentes o Juan Rulfo, amazing and beloved artists who speak in an eloquent and brilliant way

[@togeproductions6013]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnOXeaqvitqtgMU This is Carlos Fuentes interview for anyone interested

[@jkoepis]

It’s hard, these days, to express an opinion on a figure that has done great things but who also was a terrible human to others. I think we can enjoy the great art without having to accept all the artist’s actions. Otherwise we’d have quite little art left

[@TheGiggadude]

Rather than putting time into appreciating faulty work, could we not put that same time into making more art? Have we maybe, even, spent too much time appreciating the work of such figures already?

[@jkoepis]

@@TheGiggadude sure, even better! However, I hope we can see beauty even in the work of flawed humans. Appreciating art is not agreeing to everything the artist has done

[@TheGiggadude]

@@jkoepis Of course, the flaws of people are the flaws of our time and so they should be recognized and addressed. Similarly though, appreciation of work devised by people of questionable standing, does in a way support them, because it enables them and their ideology through cultural positioning. In the case of Neruda, a rapist became a forigen dignitary.

[@dethkon]

@@TheGiggadude Nobody’s perfect

[@TheGiggadude]

@@dethkon and not everyone is a rapist either

[@richardwagner8199]

Saludos desde Chile! 🇨🇱 This wasn't a video I was expecting from this channel 😂

[@ms.greywolf8228]

Although I did read some of Pablo Neruda's poetry as a child, I grew up to distance myself from the genre itself for long, so long that barely a couple of months ago I began digging into it again, but, ironically, not because of Neruda. It was actually because of Hernán Rivera Letelier, a man who grew up in that lucid dream that was "salitre", and the towns with their nicely named office and all that nice jazz that doesn't sound so good when you investigate about it. His literature took me to a place where I never thought I'd set my feet on, and I have yet to do so, but being there throughout his words has made me feel so inspired to keep doing what I love, which is writing, about many things, trying to close the gap between poetry and narration the same way he did. He may not be a philosopher, on a strict scale at least, but he is a writer, a storyteller, you could easily say he's a survivor from those beautiful yet hostile landscapes, and his words are some of the phew that managed to make me cry. I love his work, and from what I've gathered from his life, he's been a good guy in general, who knows what may come to the surface someday, but up until now, what I know is that he's a nice read. Sadly, because life's a bitch and prefers to keep a genocide bitch alive rather than keeping an artist- and a witness of some of the worst of humanity-, free from that damned Alzheimer. But he's made a lot of stories to read, some short some long: I've enjoyed each and every one of them, and never have I ever and will I ever read an introduction so powerful as that of "La Reina Isabel cantaba rancheras". So, uuuh, ye. Check him out, if you haven't, I guess. Bye bye~

[@eliastauri6642]

Neruda is one of the best poets form Latin America. Great video! Greatings from Argentina.

[@Dante-bv6kr]

A video about Federico García Lorca would be fantastic

[@macsii_]

Chilean here, love to hear you like the country, thanks for doing a video about neruda

[@dingdingdong1704]

Maybe it's not for me to say, but thanks for the respect and love you show to both or country and history. Loved the video, been loving your work.

[@thebonelord9309]

I love Pablo Neruda, I had no idea he was flawed, but I’ve always loved how his poems were about love and beauty!

[@avory8517]

woah! I didn’t expect you to be into neruda so much! I love your videos ^^ sending much love from chile!

[@HealthyKaden]

My spanish 5 teacher taught me about Nerudo, but never went into detail. Thanks for the video, i love learning about spanish literature and philosophy❤️

[@davytyler]

You bring so much life and nuance to the figures you do essays on. I never walk away knowing how to feel about anyone you talk about (except your recent video on Einstein, love that guy). Humans are really comes and the most complex make good art.

[@fredosama3466]

Have you read Ruben Darío's poetry? It would be nice a video about him. Nice video, I recently discovered your channel and I love the content.

[@Billycca3]

I love your videos man. Your tone, the pace of the storytelling, the ambience in general are all perfect. I haven't watched a single video of yours that leaves me wanting more. No matter the subject matter I'm always smiling at the end. Please keep up the amazing work

[@milamartinez6241]

Aguante Chile, el mejor pais de chile. In chile he rlly now, my mom had to memorice one of his poem. Other thing, Pablo Larrain made a movie about him! only in case you havent heard of it. Saludos desde San fernando de Chile

[@sofiachiuminato921]

chile es el mejor país de chile

[@andresguzman8185]

For the last year I've greatly appreciated your videos (and really cool animations). Neruda's worth a video. It is hard, though necessary, to separate his idealized life from his literary work (ie. communist preacher with 3 expensive houses) Greetings from a chilean living in Toronto! Keep the great work

[@Firm-Tofu-King]

I thought this was going to be MF DOOM

[@ivanaznar6495]

My favorite KZbin channel uploads a video: good, but it's about Neruda: sadface*

[@vvmaas]

love what you do dude, nice work

[@pritichandrakar1612]

Please make a video about Sylvia Plath

[@karun_vv7190]

Last day my professor was giving us a lecture on Neruda's poem "Tonight i can write" . I kept on thinking where I listened to his poem. Today i was researching him and found your video on him. I remember i watched your video months ago and there is where i listened to that poem

[@daselsdis653]

Its nice to hear this opinions about the poetry of some of my most read poets in my native languaje, thanks

[@malaychoudhary6811]

'Keeping Quiet' Pretty good poem

[@kat-bk7hr]

this is one of my favorite videos of yours and i especially loved the outro :O

[@hase.von.b]

the captions: Naruto declared himself to be a communist

[@adynat0n]

Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche. Escribir, por ejemplo: Please do more of these videos about poets and writers, better yet if they belong to lesser known traditions.

[@aunt.mabel.is.a.phenocopy]

Estoy completamente de acuerdo contigo. Would love to see more content like this one.

[@unaiuwu4271]

I know you might not be interested but I greatly encourage to give El Quijote a read, it's a very relevant Spanish classic and while there's a quite interesting surface level story, it's however when you get into its phylosophical and autobiographical content that it becomes great. If you have some spare time please give the book a read, I'm sure you won't regret it.

[@freehuskercreations6852]

You should do a video on Charles Bukowski. A true post-modernist Kafka, and one of my favorite writers. Women is one of my favorite literary pieces, and it peers so eloquently into the self-destruction he himself indulged

[@kelvinmatheus6178]

Pablo Naruto is very good with poems

[@tomikuz1654]

Thank you for this video. I am Chilean and it made me tear up a bit.

[@uralbob1]

When we were at Isla Negra, I was disturbed by something in Neruda’s beautiful home,and It seemed to be a contradiction in the mind of a self proclaimed communist. It was the model of his proposed luxurious home, complete with an expensive Citroen DS. It seems that a true communist would not accept such an extravagant lifestyle. Of course, we all know about Leonid Brezhnev’s secret collection of American and European luxury cars. For me, he was s bit of a dichotomy, but without a doubt, a wonderful poet; especially his love poems. I am sending to you, an American’s perception of Neruda in the form of a very short biography. Bob

[@flameshiki5990]

Great video, and spanish. You’re going great

[@zFrizzi]

You have good pronunciation in Spanish (I'm a native Spanish speaker), if you want to improve at it really fast I would recommend just watching series in Spanish, listening to Spanish music while reading the lyrics and talking with native Spanish speakers, if you don't have any friends that talk Spanish you can easily find people online, that's how I learned English in the first place

[@UntrackedEndorphins]

Would love some videos about Gabriela Mistral and Violeta Parra as well

[@natethebluesman]

Wtf i swear to god your reading my mind. this is the second video in a row where you focused on someone im into at the moment

[@nox__7646]

This is probably out of place here but I'm gonna say it anyway - subtitles: "Naruto" 0_0

[@peegirl6952]

“He read a large amount of surrealist poems to cope” yep

[@teach-learn4078]

Excellent summary, I’m very impressed. Even subbed.

[@utsavdewan9835]

Good research! Keep up the good work.

[@lylia3413]

my sister pointed out how much you sound like Binging With Babish, and I cannot unhear it now.

[@seansmith3058]

Don't know if you made it there but his other two houses (in Isla Negra and Valparaiso) are also impressively located and full of strange, fanciful objects. I remember being in the bedroom in the Valparaiso house, which has a sweeping view of the entire city, and noticing women lingering there and touching the walls or playing distractedly with their hair.

[@teach-learn4078]

Haha, nice, yup.

[@emil77s]

I am always excited when i see a new video of you popping up on my feed :)))

[@spartanrabbit]

Cheers from Chile! :).

[@antidevgodot]

Un ícono latinoamericano. Saludos desde El Salvador.

[@lcssmu]

You should write a book! I love your videos and would love to read about all of these ideas compiled together!

[@Vence.]

If you ever can, you should come visit Cuba.

[@eyondev]

Great Video! Greetings from Mendoza, just on the other side of the mountain from Santiago

[@33up24]

Other latins and Spanish speaking writers that (at least to me) are a must: Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, Juan Emilio Bosch Gaviño, Octavio paz. I hope some day you get to talk about them, specially Juan Bosch since I'm bias toward him after all his from my motherland, and a man i like to describe as ahead of his times in the Dominican sociopolital sphere

[@oiacopas]

amazing video! I think you should take a look on Clarice Lispector's work. She was an amazing brazilian author with a very unique perspective on life

[@DaArcaneNinja]

I recently came across his work and it was a coincidence this video came to my recommendations! I'm not surprised that another artist is flawed from being a neglectful father and husband, but i don't think his politics makes him controversial. He seems to strive for a better quality of life for humans and understood sadness, which is something Marx spoke about too in theorizing alienation. Still, him being a product of the times like misogyny was (and still kinda is) a social norm.

[@joaco.lynch0]

Me gustas cuando callas porque estás como ausente, Y me oyes desde lejos, y mi voz no te toca. Saludos desde el sur de Chile

[@turlyblistershits]

Keeping in theme, a video on García Lorca would be really interesting

[@praveenraj5879]

Keeping Quiet - Pablo Neruda

[@whinda4702]

Do more poets,

[@h.hholmes.492]

Now we will count till twelve And we will all keep still

[@anonymous0269]

In Italy I learned about Neruda through a movie called "the postman" it's a very nice movie and book. I love Neruda's work and am grateful you covered it. Fuck CIA

[@TheLinch36]

somos el mejor país de chile hermanooo

[@Wonderingax]

el primer pais de Chile

[@ethandew1768]

America bombed a government building on September 11th for political reasons. The irony is not lost on me.

[@allard110]

Really good! Probably should have gone with a different thumbnail tho

[@abrariqbal6708]

Love this stuff man. Would you want to make a video on Rudolf Steiner? I just took a class on the guy; he was doing a lot.

[@battragon]

Such a warm country to be called Chilly...

[@apustajachileno]

What a surprise! Saludos desde Chile

[@Ludovica-e2d]

Thank you

[@omaryapping]

I watched this with CC on and I feel like I just read a new chapter of Naruto

[@Justin-bt5kt]

hey you should do a video about edgar poe.

[@VivaTunita]

ODA AL GATO Los animales fueron imperfectos, largos de cola, tristes de cabeza. Poco a poco se fueron componiendo, haciéndose paisaje, adquiriendo lunares, gracia, vuelo. El gato, sólo el gato apareció completo y orgulloso: nació completamente terminado, camina solo y sabe lo que quiere. El hombre quiere ser pescado y pájaro, la serpiente quisiera tener alas, el perro es un león desorientado, el ingeniero quiere ser poeta, la mosca estudia para golondrina, el poeta trata de imitar la mosca, pero el gato quiere ser sólo gato y todo gato es gato desde bigote a cola, desde presentimiento a rata viva, desde la noche hasta sus ojos de oro. No hay unidad como él, no tienen la luna ni la flor tal contextura: es una sola cosa como el sol o el topacio, y la elástica línea en su contorno firme y sutil es como la línea de la proa de una nave. Sus ojos amarillos dejaron una sola ranura para echar las monedas de la noche. Oh pequeño emperador sin orbe, conquistador sin patria, mínimo tigre de salón, nupcial sultán del cielo de las tejas eróticas, el viento del amor en la intemperie reclamas cuando pasas y posas cuatro pies delicados en el suelo, oliendo, desconfiando de todo lo terrestre, porque todo es inmundo para el inmaculado pie del gato. Oh fiera independiente de la casa, arrogante vestigio de la noche, perezoso, gimnástico y ajeno, profundísimo gato, policía secreta de las habitaciones, insignia de un desaparecido terciopelo, seguramente no hay enigma en tu manera, tal vez no eres misterio, todo el mundo te sabe y perteneces al habitante menos misterioso, tal vez todos lo creen, todos se creen dueños, propietarios, tíos de gatos, compañeros, colegas, discípulos o amigos de su gato. Yo no. Yo no suscribo. Yo no conozco al gato. Todo lo sé, la vida y su archipiélago, el mar y la ciudad incalculable, la botánica, el gineceo con sus extravíos, el por y el menos de la matemática, los embudos volcánicos del mundo, la cáscara irreal del cocodrilo, la bondad ignorada del bombero, el atavismo azul del sacerdote, pero no puedo descifrar un gato. Mi razón resbaló en su indiferencia, sus ojos tienen números de oro.

[@paloma8632]

Guena

[@teach-learn4078]

“pero el gato quiere ser sólo gato y todo gato es gato ” Como el poeta el mismo

[@jameshiggins3613]

narudo never heard of him but my names uzumaki naruto beleive it

[@LibertarianLeninistRants]

aside from abandoning his daughter (really terrible) and the sexist stuff he seems like a cool dude

[@letsreadtextbook1687]

Strange to realize someone can have totally romantic thoughts while being mysoginistic at the same time

[@pocketblue]

Would stopping expressions of your dismay about stuff you don't really give a shit about make you a worse human being, really?

[@polinaytchannel]

I love ur content!

[@andrewnorris7642]

You need to read some stuff by Khalil Gibran. "The Alchemist" and "The Prophet" are great works of his.

[@JewyJew]

You do great videos, you should do one on Han Ryner

[@simplyafloatingeyeball.8923]

KZbin shows neruda’s name as “Naruto” lol Naruto over all

[@cnutjay]

Que!?! Narutooooooo

[@rizzle9943]

every time he says "neruda" it sounds like "naruto"

[@_nadie0]

Saludos Sísifo.

[@Zkillzen]

This dude for reals calls Nerdura for "NARUTO" omfg lool

[@ganes9514]

Pablo

[@3Prayt]

It's nice hearing about Argentina on your channel once in a while

[@ZoiusGM]

Why a villain though? Isn't it a exaggeration? The only thing 'disgusting' to me or 'bad' and hypocritical is how he did not react to the oppression of the workers of Soviet Union while he did react for the oppression in Chile.

[@jurekrisch5737]

Hey, you probably won´t read this, but I wanted to buy the Sisyphus 55 Basic Hoodie, however it is out of stock, I bought one in L which was to small and now I could only refund, not chose a new size. This is quite frustrating, since I really like the design, are there plans to restock them?

[@Sisyphus55]

Hey Jurek. It’s been out of stock for a while although I’m not sure why. It’s unfortunately out of stock for all sizes right now :/ I’ll try to contact the supplier when I have time but there’ll be a new merch rollout soon

[@tomio8072]

I keep thinking you say naruto

[@sebastiann6802]

Yoo Im from Chile

[@Ludovica-e2d]

Let's carry on all the hypocrites of the world for the sake of mankind -)

[@TM-qt2ze]

haha he's probably the less liked nobel prize poet here in Chile, because of his shitty attitudes towards women, but we all were made to memorize some of his poems in school, at some point. Canto general has some pretty iconic works, i would recommend XII from Alturas de Macchu Picchu. Chileans remember that poem from a song versing of it by prog rock band Los Jaivas.

[@IvoKevin]

Now Borges pls (:

[@sheevcreatine5676]

do rumi !

[@dmm3124]

Where do you live where you don't hear Spanish? The Moon?

[@hilariousname6826]

Where do you live that you are under the impression that there is no place on earth that people do not hear Spanish in the normal course of things?

[@mili3804]

have you visited the south of chile?

[@philipm3173]

Cheelay

[@h4skey2001]

Could you do a video on Immanuel Wallerstein?? I feel like he shaped a lot of the way I think about history and present day capitalism as a whole in my first year as a history student and a socialist when I read him. Event though he s more of a historian and sociologist I think he deserves a video like yours due to his long life, prolific work and political activism on the left.

[@00i0ii0]

I didn't fancy the bit where you say his judgment should be left to Chileans; should the judgment of Hitler only be left to germans? Don't be nationalist. Good vid overall though, 'never even heard of the guy before, thanks for informing me.

[@emiliemartin5965]

Cooooooomo ? Su pais favorito es chile ????? La media volaita weon